Due to the COVID-19 outbreak and as per Federal Guidelines for staff safety and to do our part in containing the spread of the outbreak, with effect from Wednesday 18th March, 2020 all Embassy Staff will be working from home. The Consular Section of the Embassy is CURRENTLY not offering any registration services or passport renewals. For Emergencies, please call (202)726-7100 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM.

If you have a specific issue please locate the staff member you are trying to reach by clicking here. Due to increased call volumes, you are encouraged to use emails, to communicate with staff. This situation will be in effect until further notice and will be updated as and when we receive updates on the health situation from the Federal Authorities.

He informed Parliament that Cabinet had approved, in PRINCIPLE, the proposal to allow these stranded Ugandans and Uganda residents to return in a PHASED and SAFE manner.

Accordingly, a multi-sectoral committee was tasked to put in place all the necessary facilities that will ensure a smooth exercise that provides for the personal safety of the returnees and that of the public in Uganda.

The Ministry of Health is therefore arranging for testing facilities on arrival, the availability of PPE for frontline workers who will be handling the returnees and for adequate and appropriate quarantine centers. Additionally, the arrival area at Entebbe Airport is being re-organized to ensure that it meets social distancing standards as prescribed by the World Health Organization and the Ministry of Health.

We now await detailed guidance on the repatriation schedule to enable us put in place the required flights. Please note that we have not received approved dates yet and we therefore cannot give you an exact date of when the first flights will depart the United States, South America or the Caribbean.

In the meantime, please be reminded that as per latest advisory from the Uganda Civil Aviation Authority, here is the notice. Entebbe International Airport remains closed to regular commercial passenger traffic and you are advised not make new flight bookings on any commercial airline until the airport is formally reopened.

Please click here for, the full statement of the Minister of Foreign Affairs.

What's New

I am here, to again address you on the issue of the corona-virus. I first, addressed you on this issue on the 18th of March, 2020. Before I addressed you, together with the experts, we had discussed, in depth, the science of this virus. In that study, we had discovered the following characteristics of this virus.

New High Commissioner of Uganda to Jamaica, Amb. Mull Katende met with Ms Shorna-Kay Richards Director of the Bilateral Relations Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade in Kingston this morning.

As you are aware, the recent outbreak of the Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) continues to spread across the world. The World Health Organization has today 3rd March 2020, declared this outbreak a pandemic.